Definition of Knot

Noun

• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
  greyback grayback - calidris canutus
• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn
  either an imperfection or created by design
  slub burl
• a unit of length used in navigation
  exactly 1,852 meters
  historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
  - nautical mile mile mi - naut mi - international nautical mile - air mile
• something twisted and tight and swollen
  "their muscles stood out in knots"
  "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"
  "his stomach was in knots"
  gnarl
• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
  "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
  
• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
  
• a tight cluster of people or things
  "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"
  "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"
  

Verb

• tangle or complicate
  "a ravelled story"
  ravel tangle
• tie or fasten into a knot
  "knot the shoelaces"
  
• make into knots
  make knots out of
  "She knotted her fingers"
  

Word games points for the Knot

• Scrabble® score of the knot (8)
• Word Chums® score of the knot (10)
• Words With Friends® score of the knot (9)

Unscramble knot

9 unscramble word found using the letters knot.

knot, ko, kon, no, not, on, to, ton, tonk,